If you've been monitoring AM 960 listening for a signal that was mandated to be on air today (Nov. 30th), you can tune it out - and apparently for a lot longer. 

I spoke to owner Elliott Kerr this afternoon and asked him if CKNT would see the light of day by the CRTC's latest deadline. His answer was an emphatic no, that the station would not make air until sometime in the new year. He refused to say what the latest delay was or why it was taking so long, noting that he'd put more than five years of his life into the venture and he's frustrated by the seemingly never-ending delays.

He also wouldn't comment on whether they've hired any staff, if there's a website being planned, where the station will be located, if the transmitter is in place or even if there's any of the broadcasting equipment installed. Sounds to me like they wouldn't be ready even if the TX is.

In our very short conversation, I asked him if he believed the CRTC would grant them yet ANOTHER delay - it's already been half a decade and counting as of this month. His response: we hope so.

I'm not attributing this to him, but that answer makes it sound like they haven't even put in the request for another extension yet. 

And so the station that no one has ever heard of continues to be Mississauga's best kept secret - at least until some unspecified time in 2017.

If then. 

Last edited by RadioActive (November 30, 2016 5:56 pm)